Weeee I wasn't even remotely excited for the WSOP until a few days ago, and now the 40k event got started and suddenly it seems awesome. I'm headed out tomorrow night and should be there most of June. I am planning on playing a couple LHE events, the triple draw event, and some live cash games. Also looking forward to meeting a bunch of DC and 2+2 LHE guys who are going to be out there ruining the games.

This month I've been playing a bit more online, with typical LHE swings. Though I'm definitely getting back into the swing of things, finding some good games. I even chased a maniac up to Stars 100/200 which I haven't played online in awhile, usually because I don't feel I have an edge in a lot of lineups, but this was certainly an exception. It's sort of funny having played a lot of different limits over the years, one thing you want to avoid is not taking a smaller game seriously, which some guys can never figure out and never get back to the level they were at before having to drop down. On the other hand, its somewhat nice to jump into a pretty big game and not have the complete overwhelming terror that I felt the first time I ever played 100/200 online. It's certainly a familiar game and you don't have to worry about making tilty mistakes just due to the stakes involved.

Hopefully I can play well at all limits in Vegas, sometimes I get in games with 2+2ers, other pros I know, etc. and have way too much fun. Winning $ at the WSOP for once would be a new kind of fun I think

Updates to come from Vegas sporadically, hopefully it will be like last year and I can post about some tourney runs, but that's probably pretty optimistic.

April turned out to be a pretty busy month, as I was in LA a couple times for various dinners + poker trips, and Seattle for a week of work. My wife also was traveling for a week so it just seemed like we both were always running around and a few weeks flew by. A week ago we went up to LA together planning t go to Disneyland on her birthday, and I would just skip off to Commerce while she had some fun with her friends the rest of the weekend. Not a bad deal for me imo

I think I played some triple draw / badeucey / badugi mix games and a bit of 2 card poker (LHE) that trip, fairly uneventful overall. I wound up spending a good chunk of my time getting my wife's birthday present taken care of and then hanging out at Disneyland with her, which was fun as always. They have a thing this year where you go for free on your birthday, since we go all the time we have yearly passes but end up getting the ticket value as a gift certificate on your birthday, I don't mind the Disney rakeback.

After that I stayed with Joe Tall for a couple days and got a little work done and a lot of gin played, plus some yummy food as we like to do. Finally I got home for about a day and a half before heading right back up to go to an awesome dinner at one of my favorite LA restaurants, Tre Venezie, in Pasadena, which apparently got a Michelin star last year for its delciious northern Italian cuisine. Mike L. put the dinner together as always for no real good reason other than why not, but with the proximity to my birthday (the 10th) it ended up a semi birthday party I suppose. Cardsharpcook bought me a birthday cigar so that's how I know

Aside from that dinner I played a bunch at Commerce, winning in 2 card poker for once but then losing a bunch more than I had won in a pretty outstanding white chip hold'em game. Oh well, one day I will be in the right place at the right time and actually win the $50k they are trying to give away in that game.

Home for a couple weeks of normalness, then my brother is graduating so family will be in town, Courtney is running the San Diego marathon, and the WSOP begins at the end of the month, so it won't stay quiet for long!